New Year's Bar Hopping Til Dawn Might Be Tough This Year

Bad news for cocaine dealers: with less than a day left to apply, only a few dozen spots around town have submitted the necessary paperwork in order to stay open into the night on New Year's Eve. A new, earlier deadline and the State Liquor Authority's tightening the leash on which places they'll let stay open until 8 a.m. has led to only 39 bars filing for permits. Last year there were 400. And even among those 39, six have already been denied. Rob Bookman from the New York Nightlife Association thinks the new deadline is responsible, telling the Post, "It used to be that you didn't have to file until 10 days before New Year's Eve. There was no outreach besides the SLA's Web site, which no one reads."

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By Billy Parker in News on November 16, 2008 2:40 PM

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ianmac47

Good. Now the streets will be filled with angry bar patrons and drunk drivers at the same time. This should make for an exciting reality television show.

Brainwash

superinternaute, you're obviously hanging out in the wrong bars for New Years.

superinternaute

Excuse my ignorance. The article refers to

bad news for Cocaine dealers. What does that have to do with being out there having fun on New Years day?

lanciano

who needs to stay out til 8AM anyway. Who can afford to pay 6-15 dollars a drink for that many hours?!?!?

3am is the time when you're supposed to bring a few eccentrics back to your apartment and empty every bottle of liquor and wine that you wisely stocked weeks in advance. Staying out til 8am is so 70s.

thefacts

We want more places to vomit from! We never stayed open till noon in the suburbs, where I come from. That's why I moved to NYC. What's the point of living here now?

What kind of city is this? They never told me NYC was so puritanical at my fraternity. If I had known, I'd have moved to Miami Beach or Vegas, instead of spending all my rent money in Murray Hill or Bushwick. Maybe I'll leave the city for NJ or L.I., and become another B&T jerk who crowd into these joints along with me.

ides_of_march

Amateur night.

TN

Each year more and more people stay home here on New Year's Eve. A bunch of reasons: more people with children, too expensive, crappy parties, can't smoke, bad weather, etc. I went to a couple of bars last year and they were both half-full late in the evening. It doesn't make sense to many bar owners to stay open past 4 AM. It's a better situation in Miami and Las Vegas where the party environment is much better. 30-35 bars that stay open after 4 AM is probably more than is needed.

abcohen

first READ THE DAMN WEBSITE!!!!! what happens if they changed permit renewal rules (think you could blame the website for a vendor not staying informed!!!

(ps IRS updates TAX CODE every year - arent there services that manage this stuff like there are accountants?)

chris

i can't wait!

QM

I'm convinced that theres people out there actively trying to make all of NYC into one giant museum. They won't rest until every borough is full of luxury condo's and no bar or nightclub is open past 10 p.m.